Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical- Page 3

[NS]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:39am

Mamma Mia
Hairspray
Les Mis
and of course Blood Brothers!! (ok I know it didnt last as long on Broadway but that ending is very emotional and powerful!)
Cabaret

[another_reprise]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:40am

Cabaret anyone?
I couldn't move/speak/breathe for awhile after I saw that.

[GuitarGirl]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:33am

Finale B-Rent

[Josephine2]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:34am

"42nd Street" Revival...the tap number after the bows

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:41am

"A New Day for Christmas" - ANNIE
"Hard Candy Christmas" - THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
"Eva's Lament" - EVITA

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:15am

Hairspray
Little Shop Of Horrors- I don't know why but i just love it
Rent
Sweeney Todd
Company

[...5678]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:21am

Jersey Boys, Les Miz, & Rent.

:)

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:44am

I love the not so flashy GG closing. It just breaks your heart.
(The reprisal of "THe Girl Who Has Everything".)

Flashy-"Rose's Turn"

[JRybka]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:01am

I do love Candide's closing very much.
I also enjoy:
Ragtime and Les Miserable
Hairspray was loads of fun...
A Chorus Line was amazing cause it was the first show I ever saw...

[raphael06]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:03am

Cabaret! The ending is chilling! Rose's Turn rocks pretty hard as well! Oh, and Les Mis too.

[Wicked63]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:23am

In recent years- Hairspray! but i could go back 30 years and name so many. Boy did i buzz out of that first performance esp as Bette Midler was in the row in front of me and was having the best time.
Updated On: 6/28/07 at 11:23 AM

[Andante]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:13pm

This is going to be like deja vu...
Hairspray
The Phantom of the Opera (the way the emotions fly back and forth is insane)
Les Miserables (never ceases to make me cry)

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:14pm

Hairspray
Company
Jersey Boys--such a sucker for those last three notes

[B3TA07]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:21pm

SeanMartin - I like when he says "Any questions?" more.

Ragtime
A Man of No Importance


HOW COULD THESE GO UNMENTIONED

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:26pm

Pippin! I loved the way it was done with the most recent revival last year. I was awe-struck!

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:59pm

GYPSY: "Rose's Turn"

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:16pm

Rose's Turn
One
Children Will Listen

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:27pm

Pippin's anti-climax (of sorts) at the end.

Rent. With the the girls reprising "Without You" over the boys reprising "No Day Like Today". When they...possible spoiler...

...

...

...

when they project Mark's film all over the theatre. Gives me goose bumps.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:29pm

The Les Mis Finale, hands down.

Though, Rose's Turn is a close second IMO...

[2ndBalcony]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:48pm

Assassins. Especially the original version that I saw 20 years ago. All the assassins are together and there is a voiceover that thanks them for blazing the trail. Then there is a roll call of OTHER assassins who didn't make it into the musical - Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, etc, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. It's been 20 years and I'm still shaking.

The current ending is good too, but the other one - wow.

[mortgageguy79]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:52pm

"You Can't Stop the Beat" is great! Talk about a closing number where you walk out of a show singing! HA!

The Cabaret revival ending was VERY powerful.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:53pm

Oklahoma is great closing number.

Finale from The Secret Garden always touches me.

Updated On: 6/28/07 at 04:53 PM

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:54pm

"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"... the door always gets me

And "For Now" from Avenue Q

[me2]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:14pm

My votes goes for HAIRSPRAY and LES MIZ. "You Can't Stop the Beat" is just so energetic that you can't help but leave the theatre smiling wide. That final song of LES MIZ (off hand, I'm not sure which reprise of many it is) always moves me greatly.
Broadway Blog: Fixing Follies

[Hank]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:42pm

"You Can't Stop The Beat", my first thought too.
On second thought, "Being Alive", especially after just seeing Raul from front row center!